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1. "The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Time and Passing

2. "The tears shed over the graves are for the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

3. "Hell is different from purgatory - just a lack of exit doors."

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Quotations about: Various

4. "Realists suffer more because they realize more reasons for suffering."

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Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

5. "Despair is the shortest road to disaster."

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Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Optimism and Hope

6. "Life gives you a kick and then with a smile, asks: Is there too much it hurt?"

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Quotations about: Life and Death

7. "Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

8. "Everything hurts - and what doesn't, doesn't work."

Anon.

9. "What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art."

Odilon Redon

Quotations about: Art and Culture

10. "Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Love

11. "Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

12. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Life and Death

13. "The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt, "Complete Works"

Quotations about: Egoism

14. "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Robert Lee Frost, "Preface to Collected Poems"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

15. "Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Joy and Sadness

16. "Sometimes a man has to go through hell to turn to an angel."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Human

17. "It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Life and Death

18. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Winston Churchill

19. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death

20. "Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation of Christ"

Quotations about: God and Religion

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21. "Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

22. "Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones."

Jacques Roumain

Quotations about: Various

23. "Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."

Jane Wagner

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

24. "The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain."

Tertullian, "De patientia"

25. "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

William Penn, "No Cross, No Crown"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

26. "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

27. "International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood."

Eric Ambler, "A Coffin for Dimitrios"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

28. "The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: Life and Death

29. "Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Happiness

30. "Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery."

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Human

31. "To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

32. "The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Quotations about: Love

33. "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

Quotations about: Human

34. "None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

35. "A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

Honoré De Balzac

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

36. "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Quotations about: Time and Passing

37. "When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

James Baldwin, "A Dialogue"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

38. "That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another..."

Charles Monroe Schulz, "Charlie Brown"

Quotations about: Life and Death

39. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

Sophocles

Quotations about: Love

40. "All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."

Latin proverb, (inscription on clocks)

Quotations about: Inscriptions etc. -:- Time and Passing

41. "Revenge is a confession of pain."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Anger

42. "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

43. "Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

Francois Rabelais

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Life and Death

44. "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

45. "The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

46. "Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."

Carol Burnett

47. "Give me blood and I shall give you freedom."

Subhas Chandra Bose

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

48. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

M. Kathleen Casey

49. "Patience is the plaster of all sores."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

50. "Turn your wounds into wisdom."

Oprah Winfrey

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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